Datarade and Snowflake Marketplace are both called a data marketplace, and they do different jobs. Datarade is where you find out who sells a kind of data and open a conversation with the seller. Snowflake Marketplace is where a provider's tables appear in your Snowflake account, on trial or under a purchase that Snowflake bills. This comparison sets the two side by side, stage by stage, so that you can use each for what it does and know what neither settles.
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What each one is, in its own words
Datarade presents itself as a place to find and compare data products from many providers. Its terms of service, last updated on 9 January 2026, name the operator as Monda Labs GmbH of Berlin and define the service. Products are listed with descriptive content and the formats on offer, and a buyer can browse them, interact with sellers and leave reviews. Search needs no registration. A registered business can preview data samples in exchange for its contact details, send a contact request to a seller, message sellers, and publish a posting that describes a data need so that sellers answer with proposals.
Two clauses fix the operator's role. It is not a party to any contract between its customers, does not sell or buy products, and acts solely as an intermediary. Under these terms a customer owes it no fee for the service, and payment for a product follows the agreement between the customer and the seller. The homepage says the same from the buyer's side: the service is free for the buyer, and Datarade is paid by the provider when a purchase is made.
Snowflake Marketplace is the part of Snowflake where consumers explore and access listings and providers publish them. Snowflake's documentation says every Snowflake account hosted on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure can use it, except accounts on Microsoft Azure Government. A listing is described as an enhanced method of Secure Data Sharing: it attaches a share or a Snowflake Native App to a title, a description, sample SQL queries and information about the provider. The page names three kinds of listing: free, a limited trial of 1 to 90 days, or paid. A public listing needs Snowflake's approval before it is published.
When a consumer gets a listing that carries a share, a database is created in the consumer's account from the provider's share. Under Secure Data Sharing no data is copied or transferred between accounts, the shared objects are read-only, and the consumer is charged only for the compute its queries use. Paid listings are billed by Snowflake in US dollars, on invoices separate from other Snowflake charges, to organisations whose billing address is in a supported country.
The two side by side
| Stage | Datarade | Snowflake Marketplace |
|---|---|---|
| Who can look | Anyone can search without registering | Anyone can browse listings, with or without a Snowflake account |
| Who can act | A registered business with a business email address | A Snowflake account, through a role with the CREATE DATABASE and IMPORT SHARE privileges |
| How you evaluate | The fields of the listing, a sample preview, questions to the seller | The listing, its data dictionary where the provider added one, and a trial queried in your own account |
| Asking for what is not listed | A posting that sellers answer with proposals | A request for new data or providers |
| Whose terms | The agreement between buyer and seller | The terms the provider chose for the listing: Snowflake's standard agreement, its own terms, or offline terms for a private listing |
| How you pay | As your agreement with the seller provides | On a Snowflake Marketplace invoice, for a paid listing |
| How data arrives | By the delivery methods the seller offers | As a read-only database created from a share, or as a Native App |
| How access ends | As the agreement with the seller provides | The provider can revoke access to a share at any time |
Datarade brings buyer and seller together and is not a party to what they agree: contract, payment and delivery are settled between the two. Snowflake Marketplace starts once a provider has put its data into Snowflake, and carries trial, payment and delivery inside that platform.
What a listing tells you on each
A Datarade listing is a structured statement by the seller. Datarade's publishing policies list what it must contain: the data categories, geographic coverage, temporal coverage with recency and historical lookback, data volume, data quality, the attributes included, delivery methods and formats, the frequency of updates, the source, the pricing models supported and a link to the terms of use. A seller that does not disclose exact prices can leave buyers to ask for a quote.
A public Snowflake listing carries comparable attributes. Snowflake's page on configuring listings requires update frequency, geographic coverage and time range, and names inconsistent attributes among the common reasons a listing is rejected. What Snowflake adds is the data. A consumer can trial a listing in its own account, pays compute for the queries and nothing for the listing, and can read the listing's data dictionary where there is one.
| Your question | On Datarade | On Snowflake Marketplace |
|---|---|---|
| Does it cover the companies I track? | Coverage and volume fields, then a sample preview | Join the trial tables to your own list |
| How far back does it go? | The temporal coverage field | The time range attribute, checked against the earliest date in the trial |
| How fresh is it? | The frequency of updates field | The update frequency attribute, checked against the latest date |
| How will it reach me? | The delivery methods field | A database in your account |
| What may I do with it? | The terms of use linked from the listing | The terms attached to the listing |
One query answers the first three questions on a trial. The object names are illustrative.
-- Run in your own account against a trial listing
select
count(*) as accounts,
count(t.domain) as matched,
round(100.0 * count(t.domain) / count(*), 1) as matched_pct,
min(t.first_day) as earliest_day,
max(t.last_day) as latest_day
from crm.public.accounts a
left join (
select domain, min(observed_on) as first_day, max(observed_on) as last_day
from trial_listing.public.company_events
group by domain
) t on t.domain = a.domain;Snowflake says a trial may give indefinite access to a limited set of data or time-limited access to all of it, so a short history in a trial can be a property of the trial and not of the product. Ask the provider which it is.
Where the two meet
Datarade's product search can be filtered by delivery method, and the options include S3 bucket, REST API, SFTP, email and Snowflake share. A product found on Datarade can therefore reach you as a share in your Snowflake account: one venue found it and the other platform delivers it. The guide to Snowflake Secure Data Sharing explains what such a share does and what ends it.
In the other direction, a limited trial on Snowflake Marketplace ends in a request. Snowflake's page on accessing listings says the provider then contacts you, and that you might need to agree additional commercial terms or pricing before it shares the full product as a private listing. A purchase that began on a cloud marketplace can still pass through a negotiation with the seller, as one that began on Datarade does.
A worked route for a buyer
Illustrative: Acme Robotics wants job postings for 3,000 listed companies, refreshed daily, with an ISIN on every row, and runs its analytics in Snowflake.
- Write the need as a posting. Datarade's request form asks for a title of at least 30 characters and a description of at least 140, and suggests stating the exact attributes, the use case and any special requirement.
- Narrow the search by category and by delivery method. Tick Snowflake share if the data should be read in place, and REST API or S3 bucket if it must also feed a product outside Snowflake.
- Put the same questions to every seller: which identifiers each row carries, the first date of history, the refresh, how the data is collected, and the licence for your use. The guide to evaluating company data providers on Datarade turns these into a scoring sheet.
- Where a seller has a Snowflake listing, take the trial and run the query above.
- Where it has none, ask for a sample file for your own list, load it and run the same count.
- Compare sellers on the measured match rate, earliest date and latest date, and only then on price.
For providers: what each asks of you
A provider applies to Datarade, its team reviews the application, and an approved provider works in the Provider Studio: a company profile, product listings, buyer inquiries and proposals on open postings. That page states that your data stays with you, and it lists the plans open to providers with their fees.
Snowflake's page for listing providers asks for a full Snowflake account, which excludes a reader account and, for the Marketplace, a trial account. The organisation accepts the Provider and Consumer Terms, creates a provider profile and, to charge for a listing, sets up payment through Stripe. The listing is created from the account that holds the data. That is the practical dividing line: a product on Datarade is listed while the data stays with the provider, and Snowflake Marketplace lists data that is in Snowflake. The guides to listing on Datarade and listing on Snowflake Marketplace take the provider's side further.
Which to use, by what you need
- You do not yet know who sells the data. Start on Datarade: search by category, read the listings and post a request.
- You know the provider and you run Snowflake. Look for its listing on Snowflake Marketplace, trial it against your own tables and, if it is a paid listing, pay on a Snowflake Marketplace invoice.
- The data must serve more than one system. A share is read inside Snowflake. Check the delivery methods a seller offers before you assume a file or an API exists.
- Your use is embedding or redistribution. Neither venue settles it. The terms come from the seller, and a licence for those uses is negotiated. The comparison of marketplaces and direct licensing covers that route.
What neither marketplace settles
A listing on either is the provider's own description. Coverage of the companies you track, the licence for your use and the way the data was collected remain yours to establish, by a test and by reading documents.
Fokals answers all three in the open. Its data dictionary, methodology and sourcing statement are public, sample data for the companies you track is sent on request, and the licence is a written agreement for internal use, embedding in a product or redistribution. Delivery is direct, by REST API and as bulk files, as the delivery page sets out, so you can load the sample into your own account, join it to your own list and measure the match rate yourself.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Datarade and Snowflake Marketplace?
Datarade is a venue for finding and comparing data providers: you search, preview samples, post a request and contact sellers, and any purchase is agreed between you and the seller. Snowflake Marketplace is part of Snowflake: a listing gives your account read-only access to a provider's data through a share, on trial or under a purchase that Snowflake bills. The first helps you choose a provider. The second delivers one provider's data inside one platform.
Is Datarade free for data buyers?
Datarade's homepage says its service is free for the buyer and that it is paid by the provider when a purchase is made. Its terms of service state that a customer owes no remuneration for the platform's services, and that payment for a product follows the agreement between the customer and the seller. The data itself is priced by each seller.
Does Datarade sell data itself?
No, according to its terms of service. They state that the operator does not sell or buy products, is not a party to contracts between its customers and acts solely as an intermediary that offers the platform. The contract, the price and the delivery of a data product are agreed with the seller whose listing you found.
Do I need a Snowflake account to use Snowflake Marketplace?
You can browse listings on the web without one. To get a listing you need a Snowflake account and a role with the CREATE DATABASE and IMPORT SHARE privileges. To buy a paid listing, your organisation must also accept Snowflake's Provider and Consumer Terms and have a billing address in a supported country. Queries on a trial use your own compute.
Can data found on Datarade be delivered through Snowflake?
It can, when the seller offers it. Datarade's product search has a delivery method filter whose options include Snowflake share, alongside S3 bucket, REST API, SFTP and email. The seller then shares the data to your Snowflake account, and the terms and the price are the ones you agreed with that seller.
How do I evaluate and load Fokals data in Snowflake?
Request sample data for the companies you track: it comes with the data dictionary and the methodology. Load the files into your own Snowflake account with Snowflake's own loader and join them to your own list to measure the match rate, as you would on a trial listing. Fokals is licensed by written agreement and delivered direct, by REST API and as bulk files in JSON, JSON Lines or CSV, so the same data also serves any system you run outside Snowflake.
The queries and code on this page are examples to adapt. Test them in your own environment before you rely on them.
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